launch harben here in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture it's less than a month until america defaults on its loans to republicans still aren't willing to genuinely negotiate but now the one for prominent conservative writer has taken his party to the woodshed over their death limit strategy caused the right wing to reconsider meanwhile crews are working to clean up forty thousand gallons of oil spilled the yellowstone river courtesy of exxon mobil with yet another national treasure ruined by toxic crude and overdue for

a government to take control of big will before they can do even more. conservative columnist david brooks turned some heads yesterday with a blistering piece lashing out against the republican party's year in the debt ceiling negotiations ropes weighed in on this deal by writing if the republican party were a normal party you would take advantage of this amazing moment it is being offered the deal of the century trillions of dollars in spending cuts in exchange for a few hundred million dollars in revenue increases this is i say is the mother of all no brainers but as we all know the republican party is not a normal party at least not anymore and brooks comes to this conclusion as well writing the republican party has been in fact fact. that is more of

a psychological protest than a practical governing alternative to members of this movement do not accept the logic of compromise no matter how sweet the terms are chosen to write the members of this movement do not accept the legitimacy of scholars and intellectual authorities the members of this movement have no sense of moral decency and members of this movement have no economic theory worthy of the name. david tell us how you really feel so how can republicans continue to get away with this behavior that even those in their own party are growing disgusted by let's reverse the tables here for a moment just consider for a moment. first of all the reality we're looking at you know a twelve thirteen trillion dollar debt the vast majority of which was run up by ronald reagan george herbert walker bush and george w. bush bill clinton actually turned in a balanced budget surplus when he left office so why are the democrats not

pointing out in fact why why haven't they done a frank luntz and the for every time they were use the word debt or deficit insert the word republican this republican i mean just consider if it was flipped around if if ten trillion of the twelve or thirteen trillion dollars in debt if it had been run up by jimmy carter and bill clinton and only two or three trillion of it had been run up by the republican presidents do you really think that right now that the republicans wouldn't be running around calling this the democrats that and then consider what the debt what the republicans are actually proposing doing they're saying we're not going to pay our pet why don't the democrats just come right out and say these republican presidents ran up this huge debt and now they don't want to pay it. but there's a bigger issue than this and this was this is pointed out today in the financial times getting racoons column which is a great call america and europe is sinking together and he writes about how he says

the similarities of these two regions talking about the united states and europe of of the delimits are no more striking than the differences mounting debt a weak economy an increasing expensive and increasingly expensive and unreformable welfare state fear for the future and political gridlock for the common points otherwise we're going down the tubes europe is going down the tubes why would this be happening and what is what is going on to together here. i would submit to you the odd awful lot of why we're going down and why europe is going down is europe the the e.u. bought into the notion of free trade within the e.u. and outside the e.u. and we have bought into this notion of corporate transnational free trade now many of the other countries around the world particularly the four fastest growing economies in the world the bric countries brazil russia india and china while three of those four members of the deputy oh they're still highly restricted in their

trade policies unlike us and for example rock one point just picking out what he says among chinese leaders in intellectuals is now standard practice exist to suggest that westerners of all sorts should stop trying to teach the chinese lesson given the depth of their own political and economic problems and he's right and they're right who are we to lecture china about how do you know how they should be practicing their economics when they're kicking our butts and they're kicking our butts because they have picked up our war strategy you know for two hundred years was the technique and not just china by the way built all over the you know the most of the rat most rapidly growing economies in the solid and stable in south korea japan china india brazil and finally he says if the western illness worsens they'll be a temptation to try new and more radical cures by the way it is going to worse. he says those may include a drive towards protectionism and capital controls capital controls keeping money within the countries having some control of regulation over and protectionism of

course things like having a tariff and import tariff on imported goods so that you're domestically made things are cheaper so that you bring back your jobs a uses of globalization goes into reverse then china may experience is very own economic and political crisis and again all the rotman is right about china or mentions of them twice in a column this is something that is actually true of all of the bric nations fact it's all true of all of the developing countries if the united states was to go back to having a protectionist policy like we did from seven hundred ninety one until more or less the reagan era the last thirty years if we were to go back to doing that we would be making computers here again we'd be making t.v.'s here again we'd be making computer well you know cell phones here again we've been making clothing here again we would be making pretty much everything that we need and this is kind of a radical idea. that a country actually is not saying that facetiously a radical idea that

a country every country in the world actually should try to organize their economy in such a way that if they had to stand alone like we had to do in world war two story that they can make everything they need pretty straightforward stuff we should be able to do that similarly to bring this back to where i started with the republicans the democrats and messaging on the debt if politicians are going to run up a huge debt like ronald reagan george herbert walker bush and george w. bush did we're going to run up huge debt paid off. somebody needs to be saying to the republicans i'm the present united states they have a great opportunity when he gave his speech and he didn't he should have said you know most of this debt was run up by republicans by our republican friends from the other side of the aisle i don't understand why they don't want to sit down and pay off the debts that they ran up ronald reagan put three trillion dollars on the credit card george herbert walker bush another couple trillion george w.

bush another five trillion he has put all this money on the national credit card to live large and have the country look like it was doing good and now the bills come due and they don't want to pay it like our trade policy and our domestic debt policy it's time to bring in the idea of accountability i think that they need the democrats and republicans need to be democrats the president need to be messaging this and messaging fast. is time for a daily poll your chance to tell us what you think here's the day's question should the c.e.o.'s who hire illegal immigrants also be jailed with them in arizona sweltering tent city prisons your choices are yes then perhaps americans would be informed inmates are so hot their shoes are melting no i'm not making that up it's true they are or no i agree with sure of joe arpaio as anyone feel sorry for them log on to tom harkin dot com let us know what you think the poll be open till

tomorrow morning. it's just. it's the good the bad and the very in my office magically ugly first the good u.s. district judge emmet sullivan back in two thousand and eight gubernatorial put her in alaska sarah palin sued the state of alaska to have polar bears removed from the endangered species list so that her oil buddies could drill wherever they wanted and kill as many polar bears as they wanted the process well last week sarah pailin lost as judge emmet sullivan ruled polar bears are indeed threatened by global warming and those should remain on the list despite pailin pseudo science claims lets add this defeat to the long list of other defeats for the undefeatable sort of feel. about rick perry thanks to governors perry's education budget cuts

students in texas this year are actually going to be starting school with out new textbooks mandated the schools now have to buy textbooks from a new statewide system but the new system isn't supposed to be up and running until well into the new school year meaning there's nowhere to buy the books now and i guess governor perry the guy who instructed texans to pray for rain and then caused an even harsher drought that. would just suggest that the bible is a good replacement for math textbooks in the meantime. not only that considering the changes the texas school board approved for the new textbooks like replacing thomas jefferson with jerry falwell i think maybe the students are better off with the old books. and the very very ugly rupert murdoch if you think murdoch standards of journalism are low in the us and fox so-called news you should see what he's up to in the u.k. murdoch's british tabloid newspaper the news of the world is accused of hacking

into the cell phone a million. abducted british teenager whose remains were found two months after her disappearance and deleting several voicemail messages and papers tampering with the phone not only gave the parents of the girl false hope that she might be alive but also hindered a police investigation into her abduction and murder british prime minister david cameron weighed in on the issue saying that if the accusations against murdoch's news of the world are true then quote this is a dreadful act and a truly dreadful situation and called rupert murdoch's minions as we know journalistic integrity that's very very hard. after the break why big oil means big money for the republican party especially one particular freshman republican.

let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right here in the us. i think the bombings feed on the oil. we have the government says to the keep you safe get ready because of the freedom. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something

else you hear see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you don't i'm sorry this is the. other year in a devastating oil spill in the united states last week

a pipeline belonging to exxon mobil underneath the yellowstone river ruptured spewing tons of crude into that notable waterway at first the company downplayed the area of contamination after reexamining the spill over the weekend and now it appears that over forty two thousand gallons of oil coated more than ten miles of the yellowstone river choking wildlife and slipping in the river banks that now march to national treasures whack and buy crude allies two years so how many more until we get the message and kick big oil out of our nation's energy portfolio or at the very least how many oil accidents will it take purse to realize the oil industry can control itself and maybe it's even time to nationalize it to prevent further ecological and economic damage to our nation joining me to talk about this issue is matthew bait a veteran journalist and author of the new book subversion nc matthew welcome welcome welcome to me thank you for welcoming me. to the program that's what i mean

your new book you are. it's all about. subversion ank and i'm a supporter. oh you're an enabler you're an enabler you know like the subtitle i tried to make it very low key in an offensive the subtitle is how obama's acorn red shirts are still terrorizing and ripping off american taxpayers as marvel i thought nuance was important it is here so my understanding is that. you and i had a debate on the radio some time back and that's what i hated of the book and debate i said you know your crazies are worse than my crazies because my crazies are trying to save the save the earth and your crazies are trying to like you know just franchise black people that was your argument and i highlighted that as an example . as an example it's wrong about our thinking on the left what's wrong with that i mean you know you're crazies were shooting up california police officers just a while ago on the way to kill everybody the tides foundation and my crazies

haven't successfully bob to building since one thousand nine hundred eighty two i mean the weather underground is long gone but your crazies are responsible if you want to call them you are crazies because i wouldn't lump everybody on the left in with you but if you're speaking in these broad terms left wing political violence is far more widespread in the united states then out then right wing elements really right wing violence all many are limited how many doctors have been murdered by left wingers if you consider i don't even think about the abortion issue but if you want to include the abortion issue has a right wing issue then how many how many anybodies have been assassinated by left wingers only exposed here is some terrorism echoes spreading who's been i think one guy died from that eight years ago i know there have been other attempts as well and then there were the the anarchist terrorists from austin texas who tried to blow up the republican convention september two thousand and eight and they did good but nobody got any outward less that we lived nobody all nobody died only because the f.b.i. was good it doing its job i think the their intentions were pure will will will

leave that out of that let's get the oil thing here because i want to go through and have minutes left. why can't we just do like syrup pail and and socialize the oil i mean sarah palin alaska they said you know this was under our ground we're going to take twenty five percent of anything that comes out and and sarah palin actually you know when she became governor they were only passed on one hundred eighteen dollars checks to everybody that got the. you monterey here from seattle times article and the last year of her governorship they were up to two thousand and eighty dollars plus she did a special susman on the oil companies because they were jacking up gasoline prices for trouble dollars so everybody in the state got a check from sarah palin for two thousand and eighty dollars plus another charge for twelve hundred dollars as their share of the socialist pool of money from the oil companies when we do that nationwide just say this oil to the ground it's ours because that means it's not going to come from the ground for the most part governments are not very early on talk about the way sarah palin is an amazing

woman but generally these things don't work out he was so she was she's she's doing pretty good with all the good when the government gets involved in running an industry generally it goes downhill and it turns into a disaster and you mean like the prison were our jails or our fire departments or i wouldn't i wouldn't say the prisons are very good are you happy with the prisons i'm not happy with the private for profit prisons the private for profit prisons that i'm seeing are pretty screwed up the d.m.v. actually partment of mojo i haven't been to the local one but i can tell you in portland going to the d.m.v. is actually a really pleasant experience going through to the veterans administration hospitals veterans v.a. hospitals have in fact v.a. care has the high as a higher rating from its customers than any for profit health insurance zero companies there are no not at zero a lot of horror stories they are true of course there's a lot of horror stories coming out of united health care and you know you know pick your company or whatever why don't you know denmark looked at oil and they said

there's a bunch of externalities here associated with oil people are getting cancers people are getting asthma this stuff is causing global warming or. i add a couple extra dollars a tax on the because to oil to recover that i did we do that why do the oil companies get to keep all the you know they take all the probably don't get a lot higher paying for all the extra now they actually don't get a lot of profit they only get a few pennies per gallon it's largely axes right now energy is one of the most heavily taxed sectors especially oil and gasoline heavily taxed in. whether it is or it's not it's not close to capturing the extra realities the costs the costs of the cancers the costs of the of the cross and global warming the cost of environmental how do you know it's not close to capturing the externalities the end because the endangered i am it is global warming fantasy as well which i don't i know my and you're kidding you're a global warming denier i am i am i'm a terrible for all that you think because if you stand pretty much anywhere where

you've got a clear view the horizon is. that the world is flat that the horizon is for or so it appears so about fourteen fourteen miles and then the curvature of the earth takes it away ok so you believe in science even though you can't see it the global warming is a fantasy it's a fantasy of ninety nine point nine percent of all science is so now it isn't ninety nine point eight not of all scientists they don't all necessarily buy into it. there's enough there's enough doubt there that we that we should not we should not destroy the economy in order to deal with this we should not hurt the you are just the right oblique profitable oil company well i don't have a problem with oil companies being taxed i have i have a problem with them being taxed more than they are now if we have just ten seconds one last question who owns their on the ground. we never had the rights to it so so you don't think that the country should own no no not unless the country owns the

land ok math all right we have a difference of opinion but interesting but that's always the way it is otherwise you wouldn't keep having me back but if i agreed that would not be fun ok and now if you don't hold your breath on nationalizing america's oil anytime soon at least not until we can kick oil showing the republican party congress the republicans trans national oil corporation shouldn't be regulated by the government at all but should receive all the welfare money from the government they can get from us taxpayers right down to being bailed out to the tune of forty billion dollars a decade this issue came up last week and it's all of them featuring a republican congress and then you have mike kelly take a look. you want. and i said earlier last year. sure this is going sure. we do not need more rich people put your money your. support for big oil companies is not surprising coming

from congressman kelly he's one of the one hundred percent of freshman republican congressman who deny global warming plus there's another uglier reason why congressman kelly supports taxpayers of that is a big oil companies to reveal what that is i'm joined by scott keyes reporter and blogger at think progress scott welcome thanks for having me tom pretty heavy here what is the real reason that congressman kelly is willing to defy is constituents and basically suck up to and keep shoveling money to big oil well there's a real conflict of interest here republicans in the house of voted a number of times this year to protect these subsidies for oil companies but we did a little bit give digging you know after we saw that mike kelly was defending them at this town hall on friday and we found that he actually owns upwards of six million dollars worth of stock in oil companies and gas companies in western pennsylvania companies are actually looking also to expand their fracking and drilling in the state you know if it's

a real conflict of interest that we have going on here in do you think that any of the people in the audience when he showed up to the town hall had any idea that they were when you know when they innocently asked the question of why are you. trying to cut programs for medicare medicaid poor people women infants children why are you trying to do that why are you subs it why do you why you would vote to give more money to the oil companies do you think any of them realized that they were talking to an oil multimillionaire when he certainly never mentioned it and you know funny shouting never gave him he certainly was not very forthright with it and funny cide fact to be. house members are required to file personal financial disclosures that was required was supposed to come out a couple weeks ago he's one of about eight or ten or so who have not filed their personal financial disclosure yet which includes these types of holdings you know millions of dollars in these oil companies the talking points that he uses to

defend them include that you know it big in pension plans and their own retirement plans so it's actually good for people we want the government ought to be helping these companies be profitable which really leads to the question of you know who is controlling whom here is that the role of government is that the role that people see that government ought to be helping the oil companies be their most profitable or are they be you know regulating them and making a fair playing field by that argument is if pension companies and you know. the united states were heavily invested in. you know a rainy and banks does that mean that the united states should do everything it can to help them be profitable or saudi you know i mean actually we are. so right in you know it's not only i think an unfortunate idea of the role of government what you know that it should be helping out corporations rather than regulating creating a fair playing field but also i think it's an inherent conflict of interest here we've seen this pop up and actually for a number of people in the house g.o.p.

leadership we found out to eric cantor recently the house majority leader is actually short selling trent u.s. treasury bonds in other words he's betting on a collapse of the dollar that's exactly right so if the you know if there's a debt ceiling collapse if the united states defaults on its credit eric cantor. and makes a pile of money we found out that they're all ice the chairman of the house government oversight committee is actually buying all sorts of goldman stock at a time when he was trying to block an investigation into goldman sachs you know this is really right some rampant in the g.o.p. caucus brian baird is no longer a congressman but he used to be the congressman from vancouver. washington southern washington i used to do a radio show in portland very cross the river and he would come over and do the show in the studio with me i got to get to know him personally you know get to know him pretty well as a as a guest and as a congressman and i remember the day it was maybe four years ago three four years ago when he came in and he said on the air that he just discovered the most amazing

thing and that was that in the republican majority leader's office in the house of representatives the staff were doing day trading and they were doing it with inside information that they had learned because you know they knew bills that were going to be coming up before they would come up and so they'd buy companies that be affected by that legislation and he went and tried to blow the whistle on this thing got slapped down and was told it's perfectly legal there's a loophole that congress members of congress can trade on inside information whereas martha stewart goes to jail for or goes to jail for lying about right and i think we haven't seen enough of this being actually excuse is only going to rush the only case here and why is there proposed legislation to put an end to it and the republicans filibustered it a you know this story about eric cantor just came out two weeks ago you know where's fox news been on this story where of other of the mainstream media been on this story they have been ignoring it. not just fox news c.b.s. a.b.c. n.b.c. c.b.s. and it's certainly has got enough pick up as it should you imagine of president

obama own sort of shorts that we are sinners and could make a couple hundred grand off the dollar collapsing i mean they'd they'd be crawling he would be a screaming headline and drudge apoplectic just off the scale. how come when a multimillionaire oil millionaire congressman. is when somebody what look what kind of logic is he using calling it class warfare when people say why aren't you protecting the people and that really in my mind class warfare here really just translates to stop making stop accusing the rich of not paying their fair share it is a. multimillionaire gold so millions in oil and gas companies but also he's not a car dealership that rakes in huge profits going back and was looking at his video through the campaign this has been something that he any time he's asked you know why can't we tax the rich a little bit more to help close the deficit why can't we close down these loopholes for oil and gas companies he always has go to line is that that's class warfare

amazing or thanks so much for being so much for having a great show you never think progress so with catastrophes like the b.p. oil spill last year the yellowstone spill last week and republicans unwilling to do anything about our nation's unhealthy addiction to oil our planet is getting sicker and sicker and needs to be healed but what will it take to green the world try one point nine trillion dollars a year a newly released united nations survey estimates that the world needs nearly two trillion dollars a year in technology investments to fight global warming and curb ecological destruction but half of that two trillion will go to developing nations to deal with surging food and energy to me rob was the author of the un survey warned business as usual is not an option without drastic improvements in green technologies we will not reverse the ongoing ecological destruction and secure a decent livelihood for all of humankind. i think two trillion

a year in global wealth is a small price to pay to preserve the safety of our species and the planet that we live i also know a great place to get the money the oil industry oil fundamentally is really nasty stuff. the environment where it's drilled it causes cancer alleys like down in louisiana in texas where you get all these refineries it produces as going to cancer and other diseases whenever it's born burned rather most of what we use most of the oil that we use actually more than fifty percent actually comes from other countries and so as you know coming from other countries we've got to bit you know spend that money it blows out our trade deficit and is blowing out our military budget because we're having to protect the waterways in the countries and now we're all over the middle east because as we're good so it's nuts and on top of that it's causing climate change it's you know the joplin missouri is of the world the picture.